Submitted by jacob, Oct 17, 2007 12:11

Kirsch can be good, but here he's missing the point in a way that does more to reveal his own belief in the rightness of America's insane response to the September 11 attack than it does to provide insight into Faludi's main points, which he dismisses outright because to even entertain them would be to indict the pundit class and polticians (Hilary included) that enabled and continues to enable preemptive strikes, occupations, torture, the alienation of huge swathes of the Arab world, mercenary armies paid with tax dollars, the continued blind support of all things Israel, and the apotheosis of a brutal sentimentalism we should be ashamed of indulging.

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